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...follows the Escapist’s helper Big Al as he is bribed by The Escapist’s rival, a nefarious organization known as The Iron Chain. In the end, Big Al helps the Escapist triumph, but there is the clear indication that maybe, for a strongman like himself, evil might have been the right path. By adding moral ambiguity to a classically structured narrative, Vaughn makes the comic compelling even to modern audiences...
...After late 1999, when Russian forces reinvaded Chechnya and overthrew his secessionist government, Maskhadov became a fugitive, constantly on the move and relying largely on couriers for his communications. Three or four bodyguards usually accompanied him, while mobile security teams - most recently, about 15 men posing as pro-Russian strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's police - stayed within radio range if needed...
Ibrahim al-Jaafari is no strongman. He speaks so softly that he often seems to be whispering to himself. Even when audible, he can be hard to understand: his vocabulary is drawn heavily from classical Arabic, full of flowery phrases and literary allusions. Although al-Jaafari served as a Vice President in Iraq's interim government, his patrician bearing seems more suited to studying philosophy than engaging in the dirty, dangerous business of Iraqi politics. In a world of tough-guy posturing, al-Jaafari doesn't hide his sensitive side: he bonded with former U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer over their...
...target of a "war on terror" akin to America's own. This is more than a little farfetched - indeed, it's an idea cultivated in no small part by Arafat himself, in the days when Israel and the U.S. were quite happy to accept him as an authoritarian strongman who would keep a tight rein rather than demand democratic accountability from...
...agrees. "We are not exporting revolution," he says. "We just happen to have some experience in resisting autocrats. After all the years of fighting Milosevic, it's in our blood." Otpor won its reputation for bravely taunting Milosevic's authoritarian regime by parading a giant effigy of the Serbian strongman in a prison suit and charging people a dinar to punch it. Some 9,000 activists were jailed or detained. Since then, the group has hooked up with student protesters in Belarus, Georgia and Ghana, among other countries. Ukraine's "Pora was not created by Otpor," Sikman says. "Pora...